Living Word Evangelical Church
Living Word Evangelical Church is a Evangelical Free church at 1119 Lake St in Elmira, NY 14901. It is one of 79 churches in Elmira.
Living Word is a Bible-believing church that exists to serve the community around us.
1119 Lake St, Elmira, NY, 14901Phone: (607) 733-7883 · Website: https://www.livingwordefc.com/index.html
Living Word Evangelical Church is part of the Pietist and Free Church family of churches in The American Church Story. 15 congregations of the Pietist and Free Church family gather across New York — 764 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Pietist and free-church awakenings gave the wider church the small group, the Bible study around a kitchen table, and the insistence that faith has to reach the heart and not only the head. The Moravians began Protestant missions and kept a prayer meeting going, in shifts, for a hundred years.
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The community around Living Word Evangelical Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Child Poverty: 31.2% (11.4–50.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (16.7–36.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Elmira city is served by 41 churches — about one congregation for every 646 residents.
Churches near Living Word Evangelical Church
- Saint Luke's Congregational Church — 0 mi away
- Holy Temple Church — 0.1 mi away
- Elmira Friendship Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Resurrection Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Southern Tier Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Temple Community Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom Dream Center — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Anthony's Parish Center — 0.7 mi away
- North Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away